Brief Curriculum Vitae

Klaus Armingeon was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in 1954. He is a citizen of the European Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, and Switzerland. In Tübingen (Germany) Armingeon studied Political Science, Educational Science, and Contemporary- and Eastern European History. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science and Eastern European History. As a graduate student, Armingeon worked as a research assistant for Prof. Gerhard Lehmbruch at the University of Konstanz where he wrote his doctoral thesis on comparative income policies (1980-1982). Before his completing his habilitation (supervised by Prof. Manfred Schmidt) in Heidelberg (1987-1993), Armingeon worked as a research assistant for Prof. Peter Flora in Mannheim (1983-1987). He has received offers for professorships from the universities of Magdeburg, Bern, and Cologne. He has been affiliated with the University of Bern since 1993. He was a guest professor at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) and at the Karl-Franzen University in Innsbruck. Klaus Armingeon was the first foreigner to be appointed as president of the Swiss Political Science Association (1999-2002). He was the editor of the Swiss Political Science Review between 2004 and 2006 and is a member of many editorial and scientific boards in Switzerland and abroad. He is a former member of the executive board of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), responsible for the ‘Research’ and ‘Europe’ (2006-2012). In 2010 he received the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Duke/UNC Chapel Hill. In 2013 he was offered the Fernadel Braudel Fellowship at the European University Institute for Spring 2015 (declined) and a fellowship at the ‘Collegio Carlo Alberto’ at the University of Torino for Fall 2014 (accepted).

2017

2016

Choosing the Path of Austerity: How parties and policy coalitions influence welfare state retrenchment in periods of fiscal consolidation (with Kai Guthmann and David Weisstanner), in: West European Politics 39(4): 628-647. First published online: December 23 2015. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2015.1111072.

How the Euro Divides the Union: The Effect of Economic Adjustment on Support for Democracy in Europe, (with Kai Guthmann and David Weisstanner), in: Socio-Economic Review 14(1): 1 26. First published online: November 12, 2015. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwv028.

Social Inequality in Political Participation: The Dark Sides of Individualisation (with Lisa Schädel), West European Politics 38:1, 1-27. Published online: July 19, 2014. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2014.929341.

Democracy in Crisis? The declining support for national democracy in European countries 2007-2011 (with Kai Guthmann), European Journal of Political Research. Article first published online: 20 DEC 2013. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12046, printed version: European Journal of Research, 53(3): 423-442.

The loss of trust in the European Union during the great recession since 2007: The role of heuristics from the national political system, (with Besir Ceka), European Union Politics. Vol. 15, No. 1, 82-107, Published online before print August 6, 2013, doi: 10.1177/1465116513495595

2013

Breaking with the past? Why the Global Financial crisis led to austerity policies but not to the modernization of the welfare state, in: Francis G. Castles, Chris Pierson and Naumann (eds.): The Welfare State Reader, 3rd ed., London: Blackwell Polity Press.

2012

The Sorrows of Young Euro:The Sovereign Debt Crisis of Ireland and Southern Europe. In Coping with Crisis: Government Reactions to the Great Recession, eds. Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson. New York: Russell Sage (with Lucio Baccaro), 162-197

The impact of political parties on labour relations. European post-communist democracies in comparative perspective, in Hans Keman and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (eds): Party Government in the New Europe, London: Routledge, 113-136.

The Constitutionalisation of International Trade Law (with Karolina Milewicz, Simone Peter and Anne Peters), in Cottier, Thomas; Delimatsis Panagiotis (eds.): The Prospects of International Trade Regulation: From Fragmentation to Coherence. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 69-102. (ISBN 978-1-107-00487-0)

Reconciling Competing Claims of the Welfare State Clientele: the Politics of Old and New Social Risk Coverage in Comparative Perspective, in: Armingeon, Klaus; Bonoli, Giuliano (eds.): The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States. Adapting post-war social policies to new social risks, London: Routledge, 100-123.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Another Actor in Designing Social Policy? In: Marjanen, Jani; Stenius, Henrik; Vauhkonen, Jussi (eds.): Research on the Study of the Nordic Welfare State. Helsinki: Renvall Institute, 9-19.

2014

Social Inequality in Political Participation: How Individualization Reduces the Chances for Political Representation of Lower Classes, in: STATES, POWER, AND SOCIETIES, Newsletter of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, Fall 2014, Vol. 20, No. 4, 11-12.

This is a non-exhaustive enumeration. Students can propose other interesting topics which are not on this list. In this case they are obliged to contact Professor Armingeon beforehand. He has to agree upon the topic.

Research

Focus of current research

Presently, Klaus Armingeon’s research is primarily focused on economic and social policies as well as the comparative study of parties, associations, and interest groups. He is also interested in the analysis of the structures and policies of the European Union. One main focus of his research has been the great recession since 2007. Which social and economic policies do governments pursue when faced with crisis conditions? How do nation states and EU institutions interact? Why are sovereign debt crises developing in Southern European countries and which political options do their governments have? How successful are austerity and liberalisation policies? Did the recession provide an impetus to reform the welfare state? How has the crisis impacted democracy at the national and the European level? Has the recession led to altered distributions of political power and coalitions within the nation state?